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Trabzon

Trabzon (Trebizond), a Black Sea port city in northeastern Türkiye; founded as a Greek colony, capital of the Empire of Trebizond 1204–1461, Ottoman princely city, birthplace of Süleyman the Magnificent, population 823,323 (2025).

Tracy, California

Tracy, California is a San Joaquin County city of about 102,000 at the I-580/I-205/I-5 junction, founded in 1878 as a railroad town and now a fast-growing Bay Area suburb and logistics hub.

Trapani

Trapani, Sicilian coastal city and provincial capital on Sicily's western tip (Greek Drepanon, sickle-shaped promontory); 65,841 inhabitants (2020); province of 24 comuni with Italy's largest vineyard area, Marsala wine, salt pans, Egadi and Pantelleria; ranks 97th of 107 provinces for quality of life.

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City, Michigan: city in Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties on Grand Traverse Bay, population 15,678 (2020), hub of a 153,448-person micropolitan area, former lumber town turned cherry and tourism center.

Travnik

Travnik, a town in central Bosnia about 90 km west of Sarajevo, was the seat of Ottoman viziers 1699–1850/51. Known for its medieval Stari grad fortress, Ivo Andrić's birthplace, and Plava Voda.

Trelew

Trelew, city in the lower Chubut River valley, Patagonia, Argentina; founded 1886 as a Welsh railway terminus named for Lewis Jones; processes 90% of Argentine wool; over 100,000 inhabitants.

Trento

Trento (Trient, Tridentum), capital of the Autonomous Province of Trento in northern Italy, seat of the Council of Trent (1545–1563); 119,604 residents in 2025, first in the 2025 Il Sole 24 Ore quality-of-life ranking.

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey: state capital since 1790 and Mercer County seat on the Delaware River; site of Washington's 1776 Battle of Trenton, brief 1784 U.S. capital, former industrial city of about 91,000 people.

Trept

Trept, a commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (45°41'N 5°19'E), on the Isle Crémieu plateau; attested ancient place (BAtlas 17 E2), Roman limestone quarry, Oxfordian paleontology site, and active lime and cement quarry.

Treviso

Treviso is a Veneto city and provincial capital on the Sile river, 30 km from Venice. Roman Tarvisium, medieval Marca capital, first mainland city taken by Venice in 1339; 86,113 residents in 2025.

Tri-Cities, Washington

Tri-Cities, Washington: Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland (often with West Richland) at the Columbia, Yakima, and Snake river confluences, transformed by the WWII Hanford Site and Manhattan Project into a major southeastern Washington metro area.

Tri-state area

The tri-state area is an informal American term for a populated metropolitan region spanning three states, used locally across the country and best known around New York City.

Trier

Trier (Augusta Treverorum) is a Moselle city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany's oldest city, founded 16/17 BC, a late Roman imperial capital, and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1986 with the Porta Nigra, Cathedral, and Church of Our Lady.

Trieste

Trieste, northeastern Adriatic port city and former Habsburg free port (Trst), unique EU free-port regime, bora winds to 150 km/h, 2024 port traffic of 59.5 million tonnes and 841,867 TEU.

Trincomalee (திருகோணமலை)

Trincomalee (திருகோணமலை), or Gokanna, is a Sri Lankan port city with one of the world's largest natural deep-water harbors, held in turn by Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British powers, a WWII British Eastern Fleet base, and now a developing energy-hub port.

Trinidad, Colorado

Trinidad, Colorado: Las Animas County seat at Raton Pass on the Santa Fe Trail, founded circa 1860-1862, a coal-mining city tied to the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, later a cannabis and cultural hub of about 8,300 people.

Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (طرابلس, Tarabulus al-Sham) is Lebanon's second-largest city and North Governorate capital, 81-85 km north of Beirut. A Phoenician three-city union, Crusader county seat, and Mamluk-era hub, it holds Lebanon's richest Mamluk architecture after Cairo, the Niemeyer fairground, and the country's second port.

Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli (طرابلس) is the capital and largest city of Libya on the Mediterranean coast, with about 2 million people in 2015; seat of the Dbeibah government, shaped by Ottoman and Italian rule, and Libya's most violence-prone urban area.

Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières, Quebec city founded 1634 by Laviolette under Champlain, second oldest French-speaking city in North America; population 149,934 (2025), former world newsprint capital, six-municipality merger in 2002.

Trondheim

Trondheim (Tråante; historically Nidaros, Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Trøndelag, Norway, traditionally founded in 997. It had 218,460 municipal residents on 1 January 2026, Norway's third largest municipality, with the fourth largest urban settlement.

Troy, Michigan

Troy, Michigan is an Oakland County city north of Detroit, settled in the 1820s and incorporated in 1955. Population 87,294 (2020); major business hub with 6,000+ businesses, high incomes, and the Troy Historic Village.

Troy, New York

Troy, New York: county seat of Rensselaer County on the Hudson River in the Capital District, home of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a former iron and steel center, population 51,401 (2020).

Troyes

Troyes, prefecture of the Aube in Grand Est, France, historic capital of Champagne. Gallo-Roman Augustobona; Champagne Fairs town; 16th-century half-timbered center; 19th-century hosiery capital; 62,088 inhabitants (2023).

Truckee, California

Truckee, California: Sierra Nevada charter town in Nevada County, incorporated 1993, population about 17,100. Founded as a Central Pacific Railroad and logging town in 1868, named for Paiute guide Tro-kay; now a snowy tourism and ski hub near Donner Pass.

Trujillo, Spain

Trujillo (Turgalium, Turyila) is a historic town in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain, on a granite hill. Islamic frontier medina, taken by Fernando III in 1232, birthplace of Pizarro and Orellana, BIC historic complex since 1962.

Truro

Truro (Cornish Truru) is Cornwall's only city and its administrative centre, at the head of the Fal Estuary. Chartered about 1175, a stannary town, cathedral city since 1876-1910, population 19,395 (2021).

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Truth or Consequences (T or C) is a Sierra County, New Mexico city, formerly Hot Springs, renamed March 31, 1950 after Ralph Edwards' NBC radio quiz show; known for geothermal bathhouses and nearby Elephant Butte Lake.

Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село)

Tsarskoye Selo (Царское Село), now Pushkin, is a former Romanov imperial residence 25 km south of Saint Petersburg, home to the Catherine Palace with the Amber Room, the Alexander Palace of Nicholas II, and the Imperial Lyceum of Pushkin.

Tseung Kwan O

Tseung Kwan O (将军澳) is Hong Kong's seventh new town, in southern Sai Kung District, designated in 1982 and home to about 418,000 people as of 2021.

Tshikapa

Tshikapa, capital of Kasaï Province, DRC, is a diamond-mining city founded in 1907 at the confluence of the Tshikapa and Kasaï rivers, about 165 km north of Angola, on the RN1 corridor.